On Sunday evening, the Martha's Vineyard Film Center screened Screams Before Silence, a documentary featuring eyewitness accounts of sexual violence by Hamas fighters against Israeli civilians on October 7.

Circuit Arts recently honored Dawn Porter with its inaugural Icon Award for a lifetime of achievement in film. The organization has shown nine of the seasonal Vineyarder’s films.

A variety of perspectives will be showcased next week as Martha’s Vineyard Film Society hosts its 10th annual Documentary Week from July 29 to Aug. 2.

Victoria Campbell crossed the Dominican-Republic border into Haiti disguised as a nun five days after a devastating earthquake hit in January 2010.

Emmy-award winning and Grammy-nominated composer Jay Chattaway can pinpoint the exact moment he realized he wanted to compose scores for film and television.

This week Sam Permar wrapped filming on his original short film, Tick, a dark satire of the Island’s tick-borne illness epidemic. His sister Tessa was by his side as producer, choreographer and nearly everything else.